Saffron Newey : The Immediate Past

Saffron Newey The Immediate Past 28 Sept – 22 Oct 2016

The Immediate Past

The Immediate Past is a series of 8 oil pain-ngs that employ two key themes of the Roman-c landscape - sky and sea. Here, these two mo-fs are characters in a play about -me.

The tradi-on of landscape is subverted, in these pain-ngs, by digital manipula-on.

Despite the tradi-onal painterly method employed in their making, Newey’s works feature the highly saturated paleCe of the computer screen and evidence of of digital filters.

The source of these sky-seascapes was not born of the plein air tradi-on, but quite conversely, graphic soFware and the internet.

In The Immediate Past sky, sea, space, history and -me are meshed together as flexuous painterly collages. A mee-ng of the Roman-c and digital sublime.

Saffron Newey September 2016

The Immediate Past 1 (2016) Oil on canvas 77 x 96.5 cm $4,500

The Immediate Past 2 (2016) Oil on canvas 77 x 96.5 cm $4,500

The Immediate Past 3 (2016) Oil on canvas 35 x 35 cm $2,500

The Immediate Past 4 (2016) Oil on canvas 35 x 35 cm $2,500

The Immediate Past 4 (2016) Oil on canvas 35 x 35 cm $2,500

The Immediate Past 6 (2016) Oil on canvas 35 x 35 cm $2,500

The Immediate Past 7 (2016) Oil on canvas 51 x 51 cm $3,500

The Immediate Past 8 (2016) Oil on canvas 120 x 250 cm $7,500

SAFFRON NEWEY CV 2016

EDUCATION 2014-current Candidate, PhD Fine Art. APA Scholarship recipient. Royal Melbourne Ins-tute of Technology – 2013 Cer-ficate IV in Training and Assessment, AIET 2012

Master of Fine Art [Research], Monash University 1995

Bachelor of Fine Art [Honours], Royal Melbourne Ins-tute of Technology

ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE 2011-current Teacher, Diploma/Advanced Diploma of Visual Art, RMIT VE 2013-14 Lecturer. Coordinator, year 2, Bachelor of Fine Art, Federa-on University. Gippsland.

2008-2012 Lecturer, Bachelor of Communica-on Design, Monash University 2003-2006 Co-ordinator year 1, Lecturer, Bachelor of Communica-on Design, Monash University 1999-2003 Lecturer, Bachelor of Communica-on Design, Monash University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 The Immediate Past, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane Picturesque, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick 2014 Sullied Sublime [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2012 Overprocessed, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2010 Serious Moonlight, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2008 Background, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2007 Recent Pain?ngs, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2003 Two Rooms, Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda 2000 The Fast and Slow, Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Prahran 1998 Six Easy Pieces, Westspace, Footscray 1997, Room 11, Carlisle Lodge Motel, St Kilda

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2004 2016 The Ordinary Instant, The Gallery at Bayside Community Art Centre 2015 Science Fric?on Moreland Summer Exhibi?on, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick 2014 Autumn Salon, Switchback Gallery, Federa-on University, Churchill Ar?sts Books, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2013 Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, TAS

Muswellbrook Contemporary Art Prize Muswellbrok, NSW 2013

On a wing and a prayer, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2012 Paper Nights, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2011 New Roman?cs, Gippsland Centre for Art, Sale

New Roman?cs, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms 2010 Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Newport 2009 Paddington Art Prize, Menzies Art Brands Gallery, Kensington, NSW 2007 A0, The Narrows at Pelaton Gallery, Chippendale, NSW 2006 One Square Foot, [MARS] Melbourne Art Rooms

Making the Familiar Strange, ZOO, Port Melbourne,

Reunion, West Space, Melbourne,

The Narrows Launch, The Narrows, Melbourne

Transla?ons, Switchback Gallery, Monash University,

Dark MaQer, In collabora-on with The Spa-al Research Group, Art & Design Faculty Gallery,

Monash University, 2005 Neue Roman?cs, MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne,

A4 Art Westspace, Melbourne,

The New Breed, Dickerson Gallery, Richmond 2004 A4 Art, Westspace, Melbourne

GRANTS AND AWARDS 2016 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale VIC 2015 RMIT School of Art HDR Candidate Research Fund Grant. Travel funding for conference in Italy 2014 Australian Postgraduate Award, 3 year Fine Art PhD Scholarship 2013 Finalist Bay of Fires Art Prize, St Helens, TAS 2013 Finalist Muswellbrook Contemporary Art Prize Muswellbrok, NSW 2012 Cer-ficate of Recogni-on, Outstanding Sessional Teaching Award, School of Art, RMIT 2010 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale VIC 2010 Finalist, Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi, NSW 2010

Finalist Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize Finalist Paddington Art Prize, Menzies Art Brands Gallery, Kensington NSW

2005 3 IDEA awards for The Spa-al Research Group, Monash University 2006 Crea-ve Work Grant, Monash University

COLLECTIONS Victoria University Art Bank The Public Office, West Melbourne Westspace, Melbourne Melbourne Art Rooms (MARS) Various private collec-ons

PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS 2016 Radio interview on The Art Show with Alex McCullock: hCp://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/the-arts-show-27-may-2016-jeremy-kibel-and-saffron-newey/ 2014 Sullied Sublime review. “This week in Melbourne”, Ravencontemporary.com.au 2012 Overprocessed catalogue essay by Pru Gibson 2011 New Roman?cs; Darkness and Light in Australian Art by Simon Gregg, Australian Scholarly Publishing 2010 Serious Moonlight catalogue essay by Melissa Miles, 2010 Around the Galleries review by Dan Rule, The Age, A2 2008 Night Light review by Ashley Crawford, The Age, A2.

2005 ShiUs of Pride and Perspec?ve review by Robert Nelson The Age, Metro.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH PAPERS 2006 Domes?c Imaginings Paper and presenta-on at “Making Badlands” Conference, Central Queensland University hQp://www.transforma?onsjournal.org/journal/issue_13/ar?cle_04.shtml

2015 Sullied Sublime; Art History and Iden?ty in the Post Internet era Paper and presenta-on at “The Third Euroacademia Interna?onal Conference: Iden??es and Iden?fica ?ons; Poli?cized Uses of Collec?ve Iden??es” Palazzo Bernadini, Lucca, Italy Paper is presently being finished for upload.

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